Rush: Obama 'selling anger' in video

Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that President Barack Obama is “selling seething anger” and even implied that Obama likes violence.

The conservative personality was speaking about a tape that surfaced Tuesday of a speech by then-Sen. Obama to a predominantly African American audience.

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“We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods,” Obama said in the speech.

Limbaugh called it Obama’s “suburban tirade.”

“When he goes on this suburban tirade, he resents that people leave the city to live, that they don’t stay there to live and work. He’s upset that these people have the ability to leave, the financial means, resources to live in the suburbs, so they don’t have to put up with the hellhole of the city as a residence,” Limbaugh said on his radio show, according to a transcript. “But these other poor people, they can’t get out ‘cause they don’t have the money ‘cause they’re discriminated against. And so the suburbanites get to leave the hellhole of the city, and Obama’s people don’t get to leave it, and then they come back, and that’s what he’s ticked off about.”

He continued: “So he doesn’t want to build any more roads and bridges, ‘cause he doesn’t want any more people to be able to leave the cities. He wants everybody riding mass transit, when you get right down to it, or driving an old Volt for no further than 40 miles.”

Limbaugh said it was anger and the complete opposite of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

“This is anger, folks. This is Barack Obama selling seething anger. This is Barack Obama ginning up resentment of successful people. And he’s gonna stand up on a stage tonight debating a guy who stands for everything he hates,” Limbaugh said Wednesday, according to another show transcript. “Mitt Romney personifies everything Obama hates. Romney is a rich guy. He doesn’t like violence. He doesn’t want anybody taking his stuff. All of this is precisely who Obama is.”